Thermal emitter comprising near-zero permittivity materials

Luk, Ting S.; Campione, Salvatore; Sinclair, Michael B.

Thermal emitter comprising near-zero permittivity materials

Patent · 25 October 2017

OSTI ID:1404708

Luk, Ting S.; Campione, Salvatore; Sinclair, Michael B.

A novel thermal source comprising a semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterial provides control of the emission spectrum and the angular emission pattern. These properties arise because of epsilon-near-zero conditions in the semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterial. In particular, the thermal emission is dominated by the epsilon-near-zero effect in the doped quantum wells composing the semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterial. Furthermore, different properties are observed for s and p polarizations, following the characteristics of the strong anisotropy of hyperbolic metamaterials.

Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

Assignee:: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC

Patent Number(s):: 9,799,798

Application Number:: 15/379,786

OSTI ID:: 1404708

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (12)

Charge-Induced Coherence between Intersubband Plasmons in a Quantum Structure Delteil, A.; Vasanelli, A.; Todorov, Y. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109, Issue 24, Article No. 246808 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.246808	journal	December 2012
Strong coupling in hyperbolic metamaterials Shekhar, Prashant; Jacob, Zubin Physical Review B, Vol. 90, Issue 4, Article No. 045313 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.045313	journal	July 2014
Theory of epsilon-near-zero modes in ultrathin films Campione, Salvatore; Brener, Igal; Marquier, Francois Physical Review B, Vol. 91, Issue 12, Article No. 121408(R) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.121408	journal	March 2015
Thermal radiation of lamellar metal-dielectric metamaterials and metallic surfaces Noginov, M. A.; Mozafari, A.; Tumkur, T. U. Optical Materials Express, Vol. 5, Issue 7, p. 1511-1525 https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.5.001511	journal	January 2015
Realizing high-quality, ultralarge momentum states and ultrafast topological transitions using semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials Campione, Salvatore; Luk, Ting S.; Liu, Sheng Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 32, Issue 9, p. 1809-1815 https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.32.001809	journal	January 2015
Berreman mode and epsilon near zero mode Vassant, Simon; Hugonin, Jean-Paul; Marquier, Francois Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 21, p. 23971-23977 https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.023971	journal	January 2012
Optical properties of transiently-excited semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials Campione, Salvatore; Luk, Ting S.; Liu, Sheng Optical Materials Express, Vol. 5, Issue 11, p. 2385-2394 https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.5.002385	journal	January 2015
Midinfrared semiconductor optical metamaterials Hoffman, Anthony J.; Sridhar, Aishwarya; Braun, Phillip X. Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, Issue 12, Article No. 122411 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3124087	journal	June 2009
Epsilon-Near-Zero Mode for Active Optoelectronic Devices Vassant, S.; Archambault, A.; Marquier, F. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109, Issue 23, Article No. 237401 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.237401	journal	December 2012
Electric field enhancement in ɛ-near-zero slabs under TM-polarized oblique incidence Campione, Salvatore; de Ceglia, Domenico; Vincenti, Maria Antonietta Physical Review B, Vol. 87, Issue 3, Article No. 035120 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.035120	journal	January 2013
Negative refraction in semiconductor metamaterials Hoffman, Anthony J.; Alekseyev, Leonid; Howard, Scott S. Nature Materials, Vol. 6, Issue 12, p. 946-950 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2033	journal	October 2007
Electrical modulation of emissivity Vassant, S.; Moldovan Doyen, I.; Marquier, F. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 102, Issue 8, Article No. 081125 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4793650	journal	February 2013

Similar Records

Directional and monochromatic thermal emitter from epsilon-near-zero conditions in semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials

Journal Article · 2016 · Scientific Reports · OSTI ID:1333553

Doping-tunable thermal emission from plasmon polaritons in semiconductor epsilon-near-zero thin films

Journal Article · 2014 · Applied Physics Letters · OSTI ID:1426896

Doping-tunable thermal emission from plasmon polaritons in semiconductor epsilon-near-zero thin films

Journal Article · 2014 · Applied Physics Letters · OSTI ID:22350779

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Thermal emitter comprising near-zero permittivity materials

Citation Formats

References (12)

Similar Records

Related Subjects